1 Kings 14:2
14:2 Jeroboam told his wife, “Disguise 1 yourself so that people cannot recognize you are Jeroboam’s wife. Then go to Shiloh; Ahijah the prophet, who told me I would rule over this nation, lives there. 2
1 Kings 14:5
14:5 But the Lord had told Ahijah, “Look, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to find out from you what will happen to her son, for he is sick. Tell her so-and-so. 3 When she comes, she will be in a disguise.”
1 tn Heb “Get up, change yourself.”
2 tn Heb “look, Ahijah the prophet is there, he told me [I would be] king over this nation.”
3 sn Tell her so-and-so. Certainly the Lord gave Ahijah a specific message to give to Jeroboam’s wife (see vv. 6-16), but the author of Kings here condenses the Lord’s message with the words “so-and-so.” For dramatic effect he prefers to have us hear the message from Ahijah’s lips as he speaks to the king’s wife.